Plant Controller v0.2

About

This release contains improved code for plant controller. The chief improvements are:

• Integration for receiving plant watering commands as STOMP protocol messages. It is now possible to have a digital twin send actuation control signals to the plant controller.
• There is better error handing against network outages. Any errors caused in transmission of sensing values to remote InfluxDB databases are handled.
• The code has been refactored to minimize duplication.

Contributors

@AUMikkel has been the main contributor for all the improvements.

What's Changed

• Refactor Influx code and handle exceptions #1 PR by @AUMikkel in #5
• bug -7-network-errors-#7 by @AUMikkel in #11
• Task 2 remove code duplication in controller 1 #2 by @AUMikkel in #10
• Issue #12 Integrate STOMP client by @AUMikkel in #13

New Contributors

• @AUMikkel made their first contribution in #5

Full Changelog: v0.1...v0.2

Plant Controller v0.1

About

This release contains code and documentation for creating a prototype of
an edge controller for sensing and watering plants.
It contains assembly instructions, CAD diagrams and software for
replicating the edge controller.

New Contributors

@AUMikkel has contributed to the documentation and replication of
the controller.

Greenhouse-1

The first release of Greenhouse - 1. It has the following features.

Raspberry Pi 5 based controller with mostly Adafruit sensors and off the shelf motors for pumping water. There is a temperature and humidity sensor. The light sensor captures light at seven different wavelengths. The status of the sensors and motors are stored in InfluxDB database.

The controller code and the plants system has been on trial run for three weeks and the system has been found to be stable.

The code suffers from the following limitations.

1. The exceptions resulting from data writes to InfluxDB are not handled
2. There is no separate schedule for watering plants. The plants are simply watered once a week.
3. The code quality is poor